Intelligent Reasoning

Promoting, advancing and defending Intelligent Design via data, logic and Intelligent Reasoning and exposing the alleged theory of evolution as the nonsense it is.
I also educate evotards about ID and the alleged theory of evolution one tard at a time and sometimes in groups

Monday, October 26, 2015

Moron Parents Ruining Education

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I have had enough of the stupid shit said about Common Core. Now we have asswipes all up in arms about a basic math problem.

Common core requires elementary students to understand the proper mathematical definition of terms. For example with simple multiplication A x B = C, A is the multiplier and B is the multiplicand.

The issue? A student was marked wrong because they wrote 5x3 as being the equivalent of 5+5+5. The correct way to write is 3+3+3+3+3. The multiplicand is the number being multiplied.

Parents are up in arms because Common Core requires that students understand the proper use of mathematical terms.

LoL! Explanations are meaningless without support, Larry. Even Einstein required empirical support for his scientific theory.

He also says,

Also, Larry, the design inference comes first. we do not need to ask nor answer any other questions beyond designed or not.

I suspect he is completely oblivious to the contradiction between those two statements. This is why I call them IDiots.

One thing is for sure, if larry said that to me face I would drop him and laugh. But the sad part is there isn't any contradiction in what I said. ID has empirical support as the DESIGN has testable entailments.

The point is Larry wants to pass off just-so stories as a scientific explanation. He thinks if someone can imagine how a bacterial flagellum could evolve via drift and natural selection then that is enough. Moron.

ETA: I am able to post again on Sandwalk. How long my posts remain is another story.

Saturday, October 03, 2015

Lenski's lab- Exposing the Limits of Evolution and Providing Baraminologists with Support

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Yes, that is right, Lenski's long-running experiment with E. coli is piling up the evidence FOR baraminology. That is because in over 50,000 generations the bacteria are still bacteria and there aren't any new multi-protein complexes. Heck there aren't even any new proteins!

The best thing Lenski can report is that some bacteria have gained the ability to utilize citrate in an oxygen rich environment (they could already do so in an oxygen-free environment). The sad part for evos is they can't even demonstrate that the mutations that allowed for that are darwinian. That's because evos don't have a methodology for making such a determination. And that is because evos rely on bald declarations.

So yes, Lenski's experiment is proceeding just as baraminologists predicted.

Friday, October 02, 2015

Elizabeth Liddle- Still Pathetically Overselling AVIDA

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Elizabeth Liddle is either very ignorant or very dishonest. She still insists that AVIDA is a good simulation of darwinian/ neo-darwinian evolution. See for yourself. However that claim has been soundly refuted in peer-review:

Background: Avida is a computer program that performs evolution experiments with digital organisms. Previous work has used the program to study the evolutionary origin of complex features, namely logic operations, but has consistently used extremely large mutational fitness effects. The present study uses Avida to better understand the role of low-impact mutations in evolution.

Results:

When mutational fitness effects were approximately 0.075 or less, no new logic operations evolved, and those that had previously evolved were lost. When fitness effects were approximately 0.2, only half of the operations evolved, reflecting a threshold for selection breakdown. In contrast, when Avida's default fitness effects were used, all operations routinely evolved to high frequencies and fitness increased by an average of 20 million in only 10,000 generations.

Conclusions:

Avidian organisms evolve new logic operations only when mutations producing them are assigned high-impact fitness effects. Furthermore, purifying selection cannot protect operations with low-impact benefits from mutational deterioration. These results suggest that selection breaks down for low-impact mutations below a certain fitness effect, the selection threshold. Experiments using biologically relevant parameter settings show the tendency for increasing genetic load to lead to loss of biological functionality. An understanding of such genetic deterioration is relevant to human disease, and may be applicable to the control of pathogens by use of lethal mutagenesis.

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The Chicxulub impact allegedly killed off the dinosaurs. However if it did we would expect to see dinosaur fossils up to the impact layer (iridium layer), straddling that layer and right on top of that layer. Yet a sockpuppet that goes by ghostrider sez:

No dino fossils have ever been found above it. That's exactly the result you'd expect from a major rapid die-off.

What? You would think with all the debris raining down on them the dead animals would be quickly buried and preserved for fossilization. All of the big scavengers would be gone.

This is the same moron who sez the layer on top of the iridium is millions of years old but 5" below the iridium layer is part of the impact event.